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I just cant imagine a OLED monitor with current tech that gets that bright lasting beyond a year of heavy PC related used. Works great as a occasional media consumption display like on a TV with a lot more surface area to dissipate heat but no chance as a desktop monitor.
Yes and no. Its complicated. It depends on the panel type and how serious you are about picture quality. If you are serious about picture quality, you are already in a lightning controlled environment (not talking about a dark cave, but bias lightning, controlled lightning in the room. Preferable around 6500k for the different light sources and no direct light towards the screen). In those cases, you will notice that it can actually improve perceived image quality on oleds, regardless of which generation of panel it is.It's also crazy that there are people (mostly on Reddit) who actually think OLED monitors are bright enough and that anything more will "sear your eyes".
Oleds, regardless of panel type, are flawed in many ways, but still beautiful. Just pick the correct one according to where you intend to use it, see how much control you have to improve on the flaws and have fun. Yes and no. Its complicated. It depends on the panel type and how serious you are about picture quality. If you are serious about picture quality, you are already in a lightning controlled environment (not talking about a dark cave, but bias lightning, controlled lightning in the room. Preferable around 6500k for the different light sources and no direct light towards the screen). In those cases, you will notice that it can actually improve perceived image quality on oleds, regardless of which generation of panel it is.
If you are in an environment that you have no control and lights go everywhere, you are already screwed and need as much brightness as possible to compensate. Not only against light, but also reflections.
Then you have the panel problem which complicates this further. A Woled panel might have brighter highlights then a QD oled panel and even though they roughly have the same gamut, the color volume is better on the QD oled. On the high brightness due to the white, the colors cannot keep up on the Woled, leading to duller colors. This is part of the physical characteristics of the panel tech itself. You might wish for higher brightness then.
Lots of dumb discussions on Reddit. I dont have an account there and never had one. Both can be correct. More brightness will sear your eyes and burn your retinas in some environment, while for others its too dull and need more.
Personally, I have a lightning controlled environment, so I use the oled in SDR with about 40% brightness. Looks beautiful, bright and colors pop.
Thats true. Peak brightness is measured in only small portions of the screen. That kind of brightness in full screen would destroy the eyes physically over time.
Reddit have a lot of people who have heard many things, but does not know what it means. It also isn't going to actually hurt your retinas. I don't think these guys appreciate just how bright actual outdoor sunlight is. Plenty of surfaces are going to reflect light in the 1000nit+ range. That's why even when phones push their screens in to the 2000nit range when going hard outside they still aren't that bright. Even 10000nits is about what you get staring at a T8 light. Not something Id' want to do all day, but not something that is going to damage your eyes.
Yep. The sun is massively bright compared to all but high end extra bright artificial lights. Monitors do not fall into that category. One thing with some "eye comfort" monitors I think may not be BS is the low blue light thing. Not because monitor level blue light is going to damage your eyes, but because it makes your brain think it's still evening rather than night and you shouldn't go to sleep quite yet. Depending on your work schedule that could be good or bad. If you're working a night shift you maybe want your screens throwing blue light at you at 3am to help keep you awake. If you work a day job, have to get up at 6, and you're gaming at 10pm, probably not.
Still holding my breath on this until I see the final price in the UK, but if this pans out then this will be my next monitor for sure.
Yeah this isn't one of Dell's Thunderbolt Hub monitors. I see that too in the specs - downstream USB is one in the rear (still facing down, but not a the bottom of the panel) and 2 at the bottom. WTF Dell. Upstream you get one USB-B and a USB-C with DP alt mode and power delivery. Not as good as their pro models, but good enough for 2 machines. You'll probably be ok with a hub plugged into the back for keyboard, mouse and a webcam if you want one. We have that setup with Dell U3818DW monitors at work. USB hub plugged into the back. It's not really necessary since they have 2 rear ports and 2 on the left side, but someone decided all standard issue monitors would get a hub plugged into the rear. Second 2 numbers are the 2-didgit year, so yeah these are from 2018 and kinda getting old. They give us a bit of trouble but it's mostly old cables going to shit and causing problems with video. If anything works it's the mouse and keyboard. These things have been sitting at the office for years getting flogged. Word is management is thinking about swapping all of them out because they're getting old and getting annoying. That's how my employer rolls. Mass replacements, keep everything the same as possible. At any rate if our 2018 model Dell screens are ok with a hub slapped onto the back wouldn't be surprised if the latest Alienware was ok too.
I dunno it's just way too compromised. 165hz, 1st gen OLED monitor brightness, and a fan.
You convinced me to buy the monitor. If the horrible grainy greys and vertical bands are gone with the absence of a white sub pixel and it can come near QD-OLED uniformity I'm all for it. With the 48" C6 I'm trying to use now I just cant get over the vertical bands. Makes every explorer window/dark themed content look disgusting.
If its any consolation the 57" resale value is nearly worthless so your stuck with it forever..... like meOf course there is now a flood of 5K2K OLED monitors after becoming impatient and pulling the pin on the Odyssey Neo G9 57"
I suppose it means I can at least enjoy 240hz ultrawide 4K gaming until the 240hz versions of these monitors start showing up.
How I feel as well. Lol. Just another in a long line of "exciting at first, disappointing later" monitor announcements once more details are fleshed out. Ah well - the search continues. I was just going to use this at my WFH setup (desk #2) for the extra resolution and OLED image quality compared to the Samsung 40" 4K I'm currently using there (my God the input lag that seemed acceptable on those early 4K TVs is atrocious now), so the 165Hz would be plenty there. But yeah...too compromised for even that use case if you can't disable the aggressive dimming which would drive me crazy. And the fan doesn't help its case as far as I'm concerned, even if it is user replaceable according to the service manual.
